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diseases of the!'stomach and bowels | removed from the land and turned to 1 accoun 
po 8 to su 9 Win will iari with | with this fu forthe advantage, that the seeds of all Pedis 
practice of feeding ca 0 ere m 
quently leads to their ill doing. The new milk of the seeds remained uninjured, and the wee 
mother should be given at least a week; after that I selves consequently oh ah as abundant as ever 0 
kim-milk, and continued this diet, mingled the land to which su ch m e was lie 
t ree w or a month. After that time I) of charred refuse for garden e, aly 
have given whey with the Linseed for an two or recently directed his attentio 00 
; and by that time, that is, at seven or eight | application on hi Aas that its a an 
d, I have found the calves able to sustain | tion woul an improve t 0 
themselves in good dition upon good, short, young | inferior soils; for he had found that 0 "whis h 
rass. ve always allowed them hay after the first | nothin row had only to be dressed, in furrows, 
three weeks. There are two cautions essential to ob- with . es soil and the charred refuse, when the finest 
serve in giving other food than the new milk from the | crops would be produced, quite irrespective of the sterile 
dam : first, that the skim-milk e taps and = 5 the | soil below the surface, an artificial bed for the seed being 
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wes 3 secondly, that it is not th ed upon i o doubt that the greatest 
ot be successful in ere ee pane ey | ad ou tually be derived b g 
h good ajr and cleanly hou It is very poor | equal quantities of t d refuse with virgin soil 
nomy to deny calves plenty of clean straw. There is | an fo g artifi ed-beds, which would not 
on upon whi uch di ce of opinion exists be liable to the inconvenience arising to the growing 
—whether it is better to keep calves tied up, or to give plants from the caking wh often ensues on a change 
them their In ing calves for slaughter, of weather from had remarked 
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table e with the intention of preventing its burat 3 
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ing out into flame, was gained, n uch 
pre e keeping the smoke or EL ly: as it such 
posed, but by keeping the air out, an thus cutt 
one of the essential elements equired to su 83 
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of yA successful employment a Perience 
the fermentation and disintegration of bone 
he confessed that such result was 
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he sh have imagined, on a review o t 
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heated mass, and preventing further desen 
e could only conceive “that charcoal aided the decom. 
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quiet, and the absence of light, disposes them to fatten | description was available for the purpose of the charriag 
more quickly; and fer a time the condition of rearing required, whether consisting of hedge-cuttings or other 
calves will be better under such treatment. But in woody material, or of stubble, Couch- gra wer or other 
| 1 Les gain this advantage at the expense of viens and the heaps being formed in a conical shape, | a 
vigour nstitution which enables an animal to covered with earth or weeds, had only to be ‘lighted, and 
—— with bern. hardships its after life may be care taken, during the slow combustion, that no flame, 
exposed I think that calves cannot tov soon be per- and as little smoke as possible, issued from the mane aps. 
mitted to have 3 light, and air. It is well known He had found that 10 days or 2 fortnight were some- 
ch fat lessens the vigour of body, and if t “hat the 
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it has once been pors pi very stimulating Tod, an | longer the — was in ‘operation the better was the gained b 
animal never does quite so well when it is 3 d. result obtained. This charred substance, even wit 
ith respect to the t wa t ae the cattle the second ane tuas; had produced large crops; and he 
year, I shall only repeat that ood condition they | had ascertained that by mixing it with an rat 11 ntity 
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have acquired in the first should. not be lost. If Tur-| of wood-charcoal, it would tee the terete an 
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nips, Cabbage, or Mangold are not grown, nor grains entire disintegration of bones, on Mr. P 8 plan, but 
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procurable, a farmer may always consume his straw in | not quite the same facility as wood charcoal only : 
the winter profitably, with a small mixture of hay and while wa nd or soil, with which o as he had 
oilcake. Stock will always pay for such an addition, | understood, had succeeded, he had entirely failed. i 
and young stock will pay for it best.” roportion in which the bone and charcoal w sed 
_ Transplanting Swede Tops.—I have derived no one | was one part bone to two parts ch ai in a a 
piece of practical information more valuable from your | state, aa ey ne being, as forte e stated, wetted with 
Paper than cutting off the tops of the Swede Turnips, | either „liquid m r liquor in which the 
= oe ~ same j and I venture to declare it to bone hod 7 boiled; N cated with the charcoal, 
e of the m oductive ever brought | and placed under a shed. A strong fermentation soon 
forward, —— 5 circumstances into consideration. | took place, and in about a month the bone was dissolved, 
It t be too 7 recommended to the poor and incorporated with the charcoal. — Col. Challoner 
—C. F, stated that, having on his estate several thousand loads 
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æorietirs, ring it, and would r to the Council on a future 
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY or ENGLAND. | occasion “the sn attending the application of suc 
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Mr. Baskerville Glegg. Mr. Grant (Glamorganshire), fanaa man 9 r Hobbs did not think 
Hillya r Hobbs, Mr. Kinder, Mr. | the —— i 
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Robert Duncombe, M.P.,Hampworth-lodge, Salisbury on his farm 
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position of bon es by carryi 55 off, by absorpti 
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cess, which was t thus left unfettered by the presence of 
ny gaseous body that mig ete therwise have retarded 
its progress. He feared that the distinction between 
charring and bu aening aaa was not sufficiently at- 
i eA Be fe e labourers employed on a farm, I 
reference to the 8 of water and soil suitable 
for regulating the process combustion. — On the 
motio Mr. 
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fer the kind manner in which he ha n the trouble 
of anc t this important subject b ‘the notice of 
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—Mr. Futter, M.P., submitted 3 ; 
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the notice of the “Council a specimen of the 
“bricks” he was enabled, by means of his W 0 
saw-mill in Sussex, to make at the low rate of ls, 6d, 
) for the purpose of con- 
- 1 clean, dry, m, and canto flooring 
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for the cottages "and dakar -rooms on his 
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and were driven close together on a hard level surface 
dae in stables or 7 750 sheds, they would furnish 
a decided improvement the c a of 
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the straw and manure, and the ovine of ammon 
» tothe injury of their eyes and lungs. That injury 
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— hag ition of manuring substances. At fi se 8 eke 
feo Sevens A ae Spilsby, Lin acher Spe burnt the refuse in question, and obtained 0 
ie. Thomas, Dunnington. Yorkshire 14 feet long, 3 feet high, and 3 feet aeai . — of 
names of 18 = idates for election at the next = of wood abo ut a yar rd long cach; „ only 3b ushels of 
ashes, when an 
in blindness on the one 2 ni) on the 80 by the i 
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VEGETABLE CHARCOAL —Mr. Worryone Wuirmorr | but from 28 to 30 . of . manure — the mei 
8 Couneil with the inspection of samples of | Process was that merely of a slow and stifled combus- 
the va manures he had formed of bone| tion. Th 
c ne e charcoal N first hast ma ected a bank 
and 3 vegetable refuse, obtained by the process earth in a finely pulverised | state, = ote: that the à 
2 i ee rae the previous omg as well as heaps of b g ight be farther covered with 
f ipin Nes. . e and charcoal when incorpo- | soil, in 1 9 of tendency towards e 3 rate these one 
= h 1 ae sate, previously to ad- foe ati ai as this was found to be a waste of brea 
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ngt y matter they but without | no. ‘and it was sana to im the 
dma the gelatine pag intimately combin with | we : ater oceasi y added to — the 
ae e 1 — bursting out into flame, and was obtained ei 
me to believe 2 at by thus leaving inthe bones | as occurring near the] place, or conveyed ata ve 
their Ari matter, the value of the m auure resulting Water-cart. Thelresult of this combustion, if proper] 
from “a eee : mi habe reiia on, ought, he considered, oal of A 
ich these bones = ar bo 
reserved as the liquor for moisteoing the co 8 re lo Th carved aa we, geg —7 we 
an are and 5 their fi laced on an old b fi i 3 
a the decom — — f the nti Piste ‘si icient Sindi pe , menna of —— 
By boiling fs had thus, in the first place, been roller passed ` The . 
rom the bones in order to render ae the iabour p s — rt t 
easily ent by this economy in the 7 farthings per bushel. fle . $ Togs, wan bo ot | pos — 
ved = tnd loads of it Pai the season, | seen anything surpass the real Dutch ¢ 
applying it to his other root er si r 
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e of its pa value for the Carrot crop 
th E un such eireumst with a 
ee s to erops planted ot the valleys beneath, 
the on ee vea flow ste 
— a ro Pager in the 
— Prof. W remarked that 
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on high barren — a ye her sterile whi Carrots | 
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Mr. Wrarr EDGELL 7 ssed to Mr. 
further communication on the period of we aias | ; 
Bates on enek simultaneously 8 pee 
of stock ; Mr. Ful n meteorological al indicat 
Messrs, ita eer Oh on caste 
by them at York. pext, the 
The 2 then adjourned to Tuesday 
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